Don Beyer

Don Beyer (20 June 1950-) was Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (D) from 13 January 1990 to 17 January 1998 (succeeding Douglas Wilder and preceding John Hager) and as a member of the US House of Representatives (D-VA 8) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Jim Moran.

Biography
Don Beyer was born in Trieste, Italy in 1950, the son of a US Army officer and his wife. He was raised in Washington DC, and he worked in his father's Volvo dealership before buying the business in 1986. Governor Gerald L. Baliles appointed Beyer to the Commonwealth Transportation Board in 1986, and he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1990. He served until 1998, and he went on to serve as the treasurer of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign and as ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2009 to 2013. In 2014, he was elected to the US House of Representatives.